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This was one of those wines I had no Boudauhope for. I found it in the wine cellar and said, 15 year old Roussillon, I’ll be lucky if it’s any good. Now let’s see if my assumption was right.<\/p>\n
Upon Opening …<\/strong> Cork breaks in half – hurray for my Durand opener, these things are a life saver with older wines. I push the broken piece back in and the cork comes out clean and intact.<\/p>\n AROMAS … <\/strong> Dusty and spicy with subtle dried fruit (these are freeze-dried strawberry like nuances).<\/p>\n TASTE …<\/strong> Intriguing – fruitier than the nose lets on, relatively smooth and clean; finish has the spice and acidity. Where is this going? I actually want to find out. I think I was wrong to under estimate this bottle.<\/p>\n Open 1 hr … <\/strong>Super smooth and silky, fruit is dried and smoky, but subtly so. Most is of the dark-ish fruit variety with hints of licorice and mocha.<\/p>\n Open 1.5 hrs … <\/strong> Silky smooth still, and really easy across the palate – exactly where you want it to be. There’s fruit (dried), spice and acidity all nicely balanced. If the wine stays here I’ll be a happy camper.<\/p>\n Open 2.5 – 3 hrs … <\/strong> Still smooth, but the best of this wine’s moments are starting to fade from view. Now we are on the downhill glide – I’ll stop here and put this one to bed..<\/p>\n Bottom Line …<\/strong> For a wine I expected nothing from this over-delivered. I was happy there was still some fruit to show, and although dried it was a nice foil for the acidity and was balanced by the spice; for awhile it was a pure pleasure to drink. If you’ve got any of this – drink it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was one of those wines I had no Boudauhope for. I found it in the wine cellar and said, 15 year old Roussillon, I’ll be lucky if it’s any good. Now let’s see if my assumption was right. Upon Opening … Cork breaks in half – hurray for my Durand opener, these things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}